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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



slirul), with long slender shoots, and prone to throw 

 up innumerable suckers; a native of the south of 

 Europe, where it ijrows to the height of from 10 ft. 

 to 12 ft.; flowering from May till August. It was 

 introduced in 17.'iO, and is common in British gardens ; 

 where it s valuable for covering naked walls, as it 

 grows with extreme rapidity, anil flowers and fruits 

 freely, in almost any soil or situation. Established 

 plants, in good soil, will make shoots 10 ft. or 12 ft. 

 in length in one season ; and the plant, when trained 

 against a house or high wall, will reach the height of 

 30 it. or 4'J ft., as may be seen in some courts in 

 Paris. Trained to a strong iron rod, to the height 

 of 20 ft. or .30 ft., and then allowed to spread over an 

 umbrella head, it would make a splendid bower. Its 

 shoots would hang down to the ground, and form a 

 ^jQy complete screen on every side, ornamented from top 

 to bottom with ripe fruit, which is large, and bright 

 scarlet or yellow ; with unripe fruit, which is of a 

 lurid purple; or with blossoms, which are purple 

 and white. Some idea of the quantity of ripe and 

 unripe fruit, and of blossoms, which n)ay be found on 

 a shoot at one time, may be formed from Jig. 1 108., 

 which is only a portion of a shoot, the upper part of 

 which (not exhibited in the figure) contained two or 

 three dozen of fruit, all ripe at once. If it were re- 

 quired to open the sides of a bower covered with 

 this plant, the shoots could be tied together so as 

 to form columns, at regular distances all round : but 

 they must be untied in an hour or two afterwards, 

 to prevent the shoots in the interior of the column 

 from being heated so as to cause them to drop their 

 leaves and fruit. Price of plants, in the London nur- 

 series, from Gd. to \s. each ; at Bollwyllcr, 30 cents ; 

 and at Xew York. 37^ cents. 



Varieties. There is a variety with yellow fruit, and 

 another with the fruit roundish ; and, in our opinion, 

 L. barbarum, chinense, ruthenicum, Shaw/, and Tre- 

 •nieinu?)!, all which we have seen in Loddiges's arbo- 

 retum; and, probably, other sorts which we have not 

 seen, are nothing more than variations of the same 

 form. 



1 2. L. (e.) ba'rbari m L. The 

 Barbary Box Thorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., Til. ; Willd. Sp., 4. 

 p. 1U;J9., exclusive ot'thesvnonymes of Shaw 

 and Lam. ; Don's Mill. ,'4. p. 458. ; Lodd. 

 Cat, cd. ia36. 



Synonijt»e.<i. I., /(alimifblium Mill. Diet., No. 

 6. ; L. barbarum a vulgare Ait. Hort. Kew., 

 1. p. S-ST. Schkn/ir Hamlh., 1. p. 147. L 4^., 

 Hayne Term. Bot., t. 10. f. 5., Du Ham. 

 Arh., 1. p. .jOtS. t. I'.'l. r 4., Mich. Gen., t. 

 105. f. I.; the Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree. 



Engravings. Wats. Dcnd. Brit,, 1 9. : and 

 o^rjig. 1109. 



Sj)ec. Char., ^c. Branches depend- 

 ent. Buds spiny. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, flat, glabrous, acute. 

 Flowers twin, extra-axillary, pe- 

 dicellate. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted, 

 about e(jual in length to the limb. Branches angular. 



